Timbuktu, the place where I’ll come to

Do you realize that each person has a dream land to come?

Ever heard Timbuktu?

When I was a child, I found Timbuktu as a term to sign a place of unknown. On the Donald Duck Comics, almost in any editions, if any character have to be going out, or it has to move to, the place called Timbuktu always become a destination. Therefore, to me, once I keep, I can not remove the word from my mind. It sounds unique, reflects anything strange.

Now, after 07-07-2007, on the press release of Modern Seven Worders, I found Timbuktu again. It was established as one of the seven worders. I was curious, and then searched. Unesco discalimed in http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=119 that Timbuktu is a world heritage.

Its geographical setting made it a natural meeting point for nearby African populations and nomadicBerber and Arab peoples from the north. Its long history as a trading outpost that linked west Africa with Berber, Arab, and Jewish traders throughout north Africa, and thereby indirectly with traders from Europe, has given it a fabled status, and in the West it was for long a metaphor for exotic, distant lands: “from here to Timbuktu.”